Google+
Started my Google+ account last week. I don’t know if I will use it a lot but if you like to add me to your circles please feel free to find me here.
DS Allen at FENSTER61
Currently at FENSTER61: The Londoner DS Allen with six photographs from his recent black/white series Night Shift. It’s his second exhibition at FENSTER61 after Berlin – Grenze which was shown in 2006.
Fascination Street
Notes Of Berlin at FENSTER61
Joab Nist is running a blog called Notes Of Berlin. Everybody can submit pictures of curious notes found in Berlin – slips of paper sticked on lamp poles, in entrance halls, public bill-boards etc. The project was started about ten month ago and became quites famous. Currenty there’s a selection of the Notes Of Berlin on exhibit at FENSTER61. It’s the only exhibition at FENSTER61 that is more about reading than about watching photographs I guess.
Website relaunched
In the making since I don’t know when… I have just finished and uploaded my new photography website. I’m still hesitant in showing new work but I thought it would be a good idea to refresh the presentation of the other series. I wonder how you’ll like it. Check it out on reister-images.de
Jennifer Kyselka at FENSTER61
Currently at FENSTER61: Jennifer Kyselka with a photograph from her series Badengehen (Go swimming).
Seconds2Real exhibition in Liverpool
Seconds2Real, Street Photography Collective from Austria and Germany, are exhibiting work at Bold Street Coffee, Liverpool, from today until 13th July, 2011. For any reason I don’t know, there is still no information on the Look11 Liverpool Photography Festival website about it but at least there is a blog post by Sara T’Rula who kindly organized the exhibition for us. She will also be running an interview series with all Seconds2Real photographers in the next couple of weeks. So stay tuned on ST84PHOTO blog.
Update: Look11 website is updated.
Pieces Of Berlin at FENSTER61
Since Florian Reischauer moved from Austria to Berlin three years ago he is driving around with his moped to explore the different areas of the city. Whenever he meets a person he finds interesting he starts a little chat and asks for permission to take a portrait with his old AGFA middle format camera he bought on ebay. He takes one photo of each person only and combines the pictures with a little text he writes about him or her. New pictures are constantly publised on his blog so the series is growing all the time. For the first time Florian Reischauer is showing some photographs of his series Pieces Of Berlin in the non-virtual world now. Until June, 14th there’s a selection of 14 photographs + texts on exhibition at FENSTER61.
Check his work his website and blog piecesofberlin.com.
ALEX at American Photo Festivals
As a part of the Indie Photobook Library, my book ALEX is on exhibition at the New York Photo Festival this weekend like it was at the snap! Festival in Orlando, Florida last weekend. So if you should be around Dumbo…
Anette Nordskog at FENSTER61
Currently at FENSTER61: Anette Nordskog’s Places of Intended Beauty. Details here.
Garry Winogrand’s colour photography
Nick Turpin has published rarely seen colour photographs of Garry Winogrand on his blog sevensevennine.com. Surprising and fascinating!
Piero Chiussi at FENSTER61
The new exhibition “Berlin Talking” at FENSTER61 shows photographs by Italian photographer Piero Chiussi he took in Berlin during the last year(s). Scenes from supermarkets, demonstrations, a wedding, public places. Piero Chiussi is a member of neunplus.
Thomas Kern Interview
There’s another interesting inteview on the Seconds2Real pages. After visiting the book presentation of A DRUG FREE LAND in Berlin I got in contact with the author Thomas Kern who was kind enough to answer questions about his book and his photographic approach. I like that book not only because of it’s powerful black/white photographs. The impact of it has a lot to do with sophisticated sequencing and a strong layout. All photographs are pinted in full size over double pages and after every little „series“ there is a white double page only showing the descriptions to the images on former pages. Read the interview here. By commenting the interview on the Seconds2Real page you get the chance to win a signed copy of A DRUG FREE LAND.
Frank Schirrmeister at FENSTER61
Parts of Frank Schirrmeister’s series Sonntags in Berlin [Sundays in Berlin] are now on display at FENSTER61. The series was realized within five years at public events in Berlin, mainly on weekends. The pictures were taken at fairs, museums, sports events, beauty competitions, parks, demonstrations and whereever Berliners spend their leisure time.
Reminder: Seconds2Real at exp12
In conversation with Michael Wolf
In the context of his latest book release in Berlin I had the chance to talk to Michael Wolf, well known for his latest works Tokyo Compression and his Google Street View series. The interview is now published on the Seconds2Real website. Enjoy.
What is Seconds2Real?
Since I joined Seconds2Real at the end of last year friends and photo buddies are asking me questions like „What is that? Just a website or what? How can that work as you all come from different cities? What are your plans and aims?“ Seconds2Real is quite popular in the online street photographer scene but the offline world often doen’t know about the co-operative at all.
On Feb. 12 there’ll be an evening with Seconds2Real at exp12 Gallery in Berlin. Guido Steenkamp, Thorsten Strasas, me (all from Berlin), Andreas Stelter (Minden), Mario Cuic (Munic), Siegfried Hansen (Hamburg), Natalie Opocensky (Vienna) will introduce their works and the concept of Seconds2Real in open discussion with the audience. Detail information soon on blog61 and of course on the Seconds2Real website.
Andreas Rost at FENSTER61
My friend and mentor Andreas Rost’s series Fahrer Perspektiven [Driver Perspectives] is on exhition at FENSTER61 until Feb. 21th. During the last year he has spent a lot of time next to the drivers of busses, trams, subways and local trains in Berlin. The result is an extensive collection of rough black and white photographs showing the driver’s perspectives on the city. Check www.fenster61.de for details and and extract from the series.
Personal Favourites 2010
At the end of the year there comes the moment of truth: any good pictures taken during the last 12 months? Any pictures that will last? Especially when you shoot in public places really good results are quite rare. These are three of my personal favourites of 2010.
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This was taken on the Gay Lesbian City Festival in Schöneberg, Berlin. Usually I go there every year but this year I was a bit late. The main party was over and some of the booths were already removed when I saw this scene on a street corner. Fortunately I had a flash on the camera for this one.
2.
I live in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg. In the 90s this used to be the place to be for any artists and alternative way of living. Now everybody has grown older, the old buildings are reconstructed, more and more richer people moved in and everybody goes shopping at organic supermarkets. I pass this cow several times a week. It’s funny that those organic supermarkets try to attract people exactly with the same methods as any American Fast Food Restaurant on Route66: with a life-sized cow. Comined with this little child behaving as if it would drink from the udder this picture is a symbol for Prenzlauer Berg in 2010 to me.
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The Haus- und Heimtiermesse (pet fair) is a crazy event where you can buy anything you don’t need for a happier life of your pet. I like how the lady on the left looks at the other lady who’s face is as visible as the face of the poodle. Although this is often considered as a funny picture it also seems very melancholic and touching to me.